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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:14:18 +0100
From: "Lassi A. Tuura" <lassi.tuura@cern.ch>
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, USA
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To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
CC: Paul Stodghill <stodghil@cs.cornell.edu>,
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Subject: Re: Symlink'ed current directory and FIND
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> Find doesn't dereference symbolic links unless you tell it to.

Yes, but surely it should follow the links to the *current* directory? 
Not following links anywhere under it should be ok, but not finding
anything when sitting in a directory behind a symlink does sound like a
problem.

Paul, can you check what find does under strace in both circumstances to
see if there is any obvious reason for it to fail?  FWIW, try also the
`-noleaf' option.  GNU find has optimisations that have occasionally
caused problems for me in other contexts (cf. the manpage).  Maybe
cygwin doesn't always maintain the invariants GNU find uses for the
optimisations; using `-noleaf' would solve that one (I have no idea why
that would happen under cygwin, but there is no harm in trying).

Hope this helps,
//lat
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what you know that ain't so. --Mark Twain, or else
some other prominent 19th century humorist and wit

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